Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!thomas From: thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: RE: Apple II emulation on a Mac II (^%@@# Mailer!) Message-ID: <8552@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 23 May 88 22:07:23 GMT Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 62 In-Reply-To: Keywords:That SHOULD read: (sorry, the mailer garbled the first copy. If it garbles this one I'll give up.) M- Thank you for your extremely helpful and well thought-out reply to my obviously ignorant inqiry into the possibility of Apple II emulation on the Mac II. But I have a few (and probably just as foolish) questions. I asked, for example: >> Why hasn't someone written an Apple II or IIgs emulator for the Mac II? And you so eloquently replied: >Becuase a Mac II needs to emulate an Apple II as much as an Amiga needs >to emulate a Vic-20. >Presumably, if you bought a Mac II you want to run all of the native >applications its capabilities support, not a bunch of obsolete apple>II programs. Well, M, I wonder...When the Amiga first came out I seem to recall a dearth (that means lack ;-> ) of software for it. Perhaps it could have indeed benefitted from the ability to execute programs developed on an admittedly inferior machine. It may not have made full use of the computers abilities, inferior machine. It may not have made full use of the computer's abilities, well with such "inferior" products. Maybe an Apple II emulator is a bit well with such "obsolete" products. Maybe an Apple II emulator is a bit other programs for more obscure tasks like geneology or children's education (a field for which I recall a particular abundance of apple II software) or any of the other areas in which it is difficult to find native applications. I then asked said: I then wrote: >> This would give Mac II owners access to software like color games >> that are so chronically lacking. And you once again corrected my foolish ways with a hearty: >If you really wanted to play color games and can afford a Mac II, I >assume you could buy a small 8-bit computer just for that purpose. >The best way to emulate a particular computer is to buy it. > --M What a good idea! But what if I could only just afford a Mac II, and am now saving up for a modem? Should I buy an atari instead? Maybe they should through out the idea of a virtual machine, and merely have a different computer throw out the idea of a virtual machine, and merely have a different computer screen and a math coprocessor for my great sound and graphics for entertainment and education, and then another one with a letter quality printer built in for WP, and another one with a modem for...But wait, wouldn't that get sort of expensive? Oh well, if you think it would be a good idea... Thanks again for correcting me, and I apologize to the net for asking such a dumb question... Thanks again for correcting me: it's help like that that makes the net such a great environment in which to exchange information. I apologize to the net for asking such a dumb question... Hanover, NH 03755 With all these advances in technology, thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu You get that for which you pay..." 68C0 M67,67